Brake-operating means



Spt- 22, 1931.

A. Y. DODGE ET AL 1,824,038

BRAKE OPERATING MEANS Filed July 2, 1928 INVEHTOR ROY 5. SANFORD .U1 ATTORNEY etented Sept. 22, i931 I attratta ADM; Y. BODGE ROY S. SANFORD, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOBS TO BENDH BRAKE COMPANY, OE SOUTH BEND, ENDIANA, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS BRAKE-OPERATING MEAN S Application filed July 2, 1928.l Serial No. 289,818.

rlhis invention relates t0 brakes, and is illustrated as embodied in a novel operating mechanism for 'a ront automobile brake. An object of the invention 'is to provide a g mechanism of this character which is especially suited for use with heavy-duty brakes for trucks and busses. Preferably the mechanism includes a cam-shaft having an integral hollow head resting against the bracket ga in which the shaft is journaled, and connected by a novel joint to an operating shaft having one end projecting into said head.

The above and other objects and features of the invention, including various novel and Ea desirable details of construction, will be apparent from the following description of the illustrative embodiment shown inthe accompanying drawings, in which: y

I Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section au through one front brake, and lengthwise through the control therefor, looking forward at the left front brake;

Figure 2 is a horizontal section through the left end of the control of Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a section through the control on the line 3-3 of- Fi re 2.

The brake illustrate includes a rotatable drum 10, at the open side of which is a backing plate 12, and within which are the brake shoes or their equivalent (not shown) operated to applythe brake by means such as a double cam 14 connected by a key 16 orthe like to a novel cam-shaft 18 and held thereon by means such asa nut 2O threaded on the reduced end of the shaft. y

Shaft 18 is journaled in a bracket 22 having a boss 24 extending into an opening 26 in plate 12 and formed on its end with a plane surface engaged by asimilar surface on a hollow head 28 integrally formed on the end of shaft 1,8. Bracket 22 has laterally-extending wings secured to plate 12 by bolts 30 passing through relatively large openings 32 inthe backing plate. Spacer washers 84, having lock washers 36 and friction washers 38 sleeved thereon,

areheld by nuts 40 threaded on the bolts, and

hold the bracket 22 to plate 12 frictionally under fixed tension sulcient to prevent shitt- A50 ing when the brake is released. The bracket can, however, shift when the brake is applied to permit the cam 14 to center itself.

The cam-shaft 18 is connect-ed,`by a novel universal joint at the swiveling axis of the Wheel, to an operating shaft 44 having an operating lever 46 at its end, and which is shown as journaled in a ball48 mounted in a socket at the upper end of a support 50 mounted on the front axle.

|The operating shaft 44' is formed at the left with an enlarged generally-spherical ball 52 inside of the hollow head 28, and formed with a cross slot 54 receiving a connecting pin 56 held at its ends by the sides of the hollow head 28. Pin 56 passes through a central opening in a connector pivot 58 mounted in an opening in the spherical end 52 at right angles to the plane of slot 54.

The joint may be protected by'a boot 60 secured by a clamp 62 at one end to shaft 44, and secured at the other end by a clamp 64 encircling head 28 and confining pin 56 against endwise movement. The joint may be lubricated through a passage 66 extending through the shaft and opening into the slot 54. 75

`While one illustrative embodiment has been described in detail, it is not our intention to limit the scope of the invention to that particular embodiment, or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims.

`We claim.: j

l. Brake-operating means comprising,=. in combination with a backing plate, a supporting bracketvv engaging one face ofsaid plate, a camshaft j ournaled in said bracket and having an enlarged hollow head at its end rojecting through an opening lin the bac `ng plate and resting against the backing plate side of said bracket, an operating shaft having an enlarged end inside of the hollow head,V in spaced relation to the side walls thereof and formed with a cross slot extending through said end and provided with a connector pivot at right angles to said slot, and a connecting pin held at its ends by the sides of the hollow head and received in said slot and passing through'said pivot.

2. Brake-operating means comprising, in combination with a backing plate, a support- 4 ing bracket engaging one face of saidplate, lnot a camshaft journaled in said bracket and hav.- ing an'enlarged hollow head at its end projecting-through an opening in the backing plate and resting against the backing plate side of saidvbracket, an operating 'shaft havin an enlarged generally-spherical end inside, of the hollow head and formed wi'th a cross slot extending through said end and provided with a connector pivot at right angles to said slot, and a connecting pin held at its ends by the sides of the hollow head and received in said slot and passing -throu h said pivot, said operating shaft having a lu ricant conduit opening into said slot.

3. Brake-operating means comprising, in combination, two shafts connected by a universal joint including a transverse connecting pin, 'a boot enclosing the joint, the edge of said boot covering said pin and a clamp encircling the boot, said clamp holding the pin against movement lengthwise.

In testimony whereof, `we have 'hereunto signed our names.

ADIEL Y. DODGE. ROY S. SANFORD. 

